rearguard

How To Use rearguard In A Sentence

• In the period after the interval their methodical probing of the Hibs rearguard continued and Alex Burns should have done more than blaze wide of the target when presented with an inviting, angled opening.
• At times the home rearguard looked tentative. Times, Sunday Times
• They supported the pork-barrelling and protection of special interests, fighting a desperate rearguard action against the advancing dries.
• So now a rearguard battle is being fought to avoid this particular tide of history.
• Allowing the tiny twosome to wreak havoc is the Brazilian midfield minder, prone to fisticuffs and protective of the rearguard.
• Desjardins is still an above-average rearguard on a competent but unspectacular defensive corps.
• Roland becomes the commander of the rearguard, appointed to the post at the instance of the traitor Ganelon, who is in league with the Saracen king Marsile.
• This is a sneak attack, a rearguard action by those who still want to see statutory control of the press. Times, Sunday Times
• Mercifully, he had played no role in the shooting, serving as the rearguard of the second unit.
• My friend himself witnessed such a rearguard action. Times, Sunday Times